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The Florists' Review 



Febbuarx 20, 191:;. 



hot water boiler I have ou hand, if you 

 think it is large enough. It is a Hitch- 

 ings corrugated hot water boiler, war- 

 ranted to heat 600 feet of 3i^-inch pipe. 

 I wish to maintain the following tem- 

 peratures in the various houses, when 

 the outside temperature drops to 15 

 degrees below zero: House No. 1, 55 



,to 60 degrees; house No. 2, 65 degrees; 



' the lean-to, 65 to 70 degrees. How many 

 mains and returns are needed for each 

 house? The houses are all connected. 



K. B. K 



To heat the three houses will take the 

 full capacity of the boiler. It is al- 

 ways well to have the rating of the 

 boiler twenty-five per cent above the 

 actual requirements, for economy of 

 labor and fuel. Nevertheless, rather 

 than get a new boiler, it might be ad- 

 visable in this case to use the present 

 boiler, as, except upon the days when 

 the thermometer is below zero, it will 

 probably suffice without much extra 

 firing. 



One 3-inch main will answer for house 

 No. 1, and aaMftker of the same size will 

 supply the other two houses. After car- 

 rying the 3-lnch main to house No. 1, 

 break it up into two 2%-inch flows and 

 run one of them on each plate to the 

 farther end of the house. With each 

 of them feed a coil of return pipes. 

 There should be eight pipes in the south 

 coil and six in the one on the north 

 wall. The flow and return pipes to 

 house No. 2 will pass through this room 

 and are relied upon to furnish a part 

 of the radiation required in house No. 1. 



Break up the other main into two 

 2^4 -inch flows, one to run through house 

 No. 1 to supply house No. 2, and the 

 other to feed the pipes in the lean-to. 

 Run the flow pipe to house No. 2, 

 through house No. 1, so that it will ea\ 

 ter house No. 2 about one foot under' 

 the ridge. Continue it to the fartl|er 

 end and there divide it and run « 

 2-inch pipe to each plate, which will » 

 feed the coils. The one on the south 

 wall should have five and the other 

 four 2-inch return pipes. At the end 

 of the house unite the pipes in each 

 coil into a 2-inch return and carrv these 

 pipes back to the boiler. 



For the lean-to house run the other 

 21^-inch flow to the east end, and 

 break it up so as to provide a coil of 

 six 2-inch pipes, which should be run 

 around the east, west and south sides. 

 In case the arrangement of the benches 

 or of the doors makes it impossible to 

 arrange the piping as suggested, the en- 

 deavor should be to have about 450 

 square feet of radiation in house No. 

 1, 100 square feet in house No. 2 and 

 seventy feet in the lean-to. 



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COLLEGE POINT, N.' T. 



George and John Golsner, of G. Gols- 

 ner's Sons, have brought suit in the 

 Supreme Court in Long Island City 

 against the New York & Queens Gas 

 Co. The Golsner brothers want to col- 

 lect $5,100 damages from the gas com- 

 pany for the loss of plants in their 

 greenhouses during the months of De- 

 cember, 1911, wkI .(anuary, 1912. 



Leander B. Faber, Attorney for the 

 Golsner brothers, told the jury that 

 they had reported to the gas company 

 a leak in the main that was laid under 

 the highway in front of the green- 

 houses. He said a half-hearted attempt 

 was made to repair the break, but the 

 gas continued toJeak. Then a cold snap 



-rX» 



RETURN 

 TEAPS 



are saving moDey for 

 S. J. Reuter & 6on, 

 Westerly, Rhode Is- 

 land, by keeping their 

 greenhouse steam coils 

 free and clear of. > all 

 condensation. 



Two No. 16 "Detroit" Return Traps on top of boiler at 8. J. Reuter 

 & Son's Qreenhouse, Westerly, Rhode Island. 



Read what they say: 



"They have been working since installed and have 

 given us the best of satisfaction in every way." 



You wUl say tlie same after InataUing "Detroit" Traps. 

 Read Catalogue No. 362-WF. 



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Canadian Sirocco Oompany, Limited, Windsor, Ontario. Manufacturers (or Canada. 



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are Superior to any 

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 greenhouses. Write 

 for catalogfue giving: 

 d' tailed reasons why. 



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